Frequency

High on Ibsley Common, stark and open to the elements, are remains of the regions wartime activity; amongst the heathers and occasional gorse bush are the remnants of a World War Two Radio Direction Finding Station. The station would have been one of three , all issuing the same frequency, they allowed pilots to determined their position. The surviving features are, the hexagonal blast wall which protected the wooden tower, this is surrounded by small concrete blocks representing compass points; 40m East are the foundations of a long destroyed rectangular brick building, adjacent to which is a, partially rubble filled, shelter; a few meters further, connected to the ground, is a length of coiled and knotted steel cabling, purpose unknown. Inside the hexagonal blast wall, the only surviving evidence of the tower being the anchor bolts set in the heavy base; on one of the interior walls some one has written 'The night conceals the world, but reveals the universe'.

Another demonstration of the significance of the forest as a wartime resource.